Trust art Project/Artfulife can now offer AQA awards to participants of our projects.

Well London- Be Creative, Be Well

Larkhall- Lambeth

"The Big Tea" 

A large-scale community project; building long-term relationships, through meaningful public consultation and inclusive engagement, culminating in a community "Big International Tea Party”.

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Some of the creative projects:

Knit and Stitch in residential homes, Balcony/ home sessions for the house bound: textiles, history, recipe kit projects, grow box decoration, growing vegetables, Creative ‘Make and Bake’, ‘Saucy memories and Memory soup’- classes held by diverse local caterers, Design and production of Big Tea Pamphlet- a record of the project and recipes

Film and video, Dance- classes and sessions for all ages, Music- rap and performance with local Dj’s

Spirituality and art- LIFE project with cross denomination delivery, Visual art- photography, graphic design, textiles, mosaics

Environmental decoration, Walks

Arts skills and personal development training; including placements, mentoring, accreditation, volunteering

Main Community Event

The Big Tea event, a day of hosted Tea parties. Any community group, individual, neighbours, balcony, street, block, café, shop can participate in this day. Participating communities will receive a TEA PACK. 

A community fund will be available to support group Big Teas.

For more information get in touch with us via contact us,or tapartproject@yahoo.co.uk

Rolling Sound

Want to learn music production or create your own video games?

Cracking up
A series of shows exploring mental health and stigma are being shown at the following venues.

Artist Commission

TAP art project are looking to engage a visual artist working in public art/new builds.

Announcing the Springforward Spectacular  

free autumn ESF/LDA funded training in London for beginner music leaders! 
 
Please would you draw this to the attention of your friends and people you work with who may be interested. 

This is 10 day programme for people who are already skilled musicians/singers/techies, which opens up a possibly new world of music group activites. There is a good living to be made doing this freelance and it may appeal to you, even if you have never considered it before. It is also enjoyable voluntary work. Many musicians fund it is more rewarding personally than they had imagined. 

The 10 days will take you through an overview of the sector, and cover the range of skills needed to think about starting to do this work. Musical starting points and games, groupwork techniques and improvisation tips for creative music making in all abilities will be explored. Work with different needs such as disability, early years and more will be considered. All genres are welcome and you do not need to read music if not applicable to your music style. We hope that attendees will either begin work in this field or go on to further study, to which yu will be signposted.
 
Dates are 80% attendance is needed across the programme. 28-29 Sept, 5-6 Oct,12-13 Oct, 20 and 22 Oct, 26-27 Oct. 
 
The venue is in West Croydon, South London close to public transport, Parking is also available. Help with fares and other costs may be available, please ask if you need this. Please contact us for more details and an application form - catherine@naturalvoice.net. 

Big Challenge Competition 

The Big Challenge is a competition for young people funded by Vodafone and youth charity "V", along with social enterprise foundation and competition organisers UnLtd. The contest offers either groups of young people or those working on their own, aged 16 and 25 the chance to win a share of £60,000 funding to carry out projects that use volunteering to help tackle the problems facing the 21st century.

This year's Big Challenge theme focuses on bringing communities together.

Individuals can apply on their own or in a group with other young people. Applications can be submitted in any creative format and will be short listed by UnLtd Youth Leadership Team before a final vote by the public. Successful applicants will get part of the Challenge fund they will have their project costs paid for and support and mentoring over the rest of the Challenge year to make their ideas a reality.

Deadline for submissions: 28 September 2009.

For more information, visit: http://www.bigchallenge.org.uk/default.aspx

The poster and flyer campagin is now under way.

Volunteers

Community magazine

Springforward has a facebook account.

Go to springforward via your facebook to view images,updates and events.

Dare to dream

National Poetry Competition

Brockwell Lido Artist in Residence

Poolside on dry sunny days during August, Artist Zoe Burt - and Gethan Dick - will be making 72 life-size blue-print portraits of Lido users.

Blue-print is an early form of photography. We paint sheets of paper with light-sensitive non-toxic chemicals, then expose it to sunlight with a Lido user lying on top. The sunlight can't reach where you're lying, and the result is a pale figure seemingly floating on a dark watery-blue background.

It's free and everyone can join in - we want to record the many different people who use Brockwell Lido. All the portraits will be exhibited at the Lido on Thursday October 1^st, 4pm-8pm